Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 27

Volume 27, Number 1, January 2015

Research Articles

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  Artur Podobas, Mats Brorsson, Karl-Filip Faxén:
  A comparative performance study of common and popular task-centric programming frameworks. 1-28
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  Rongchun Li, Yong Dou, Dan Zou, Shi Wang, Ying Zhang:
  Efficient graphics processing unit based layered decoders for quasicyclic low-density parity-check codes. 29-46
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  B. Neelima, G. Ram Mohana Reddy, Prakash S. Raghavendra:
  Communication and computation optimization of concurrent kernels using kernel coalesce on a GPU. 47-68
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  Nichols A. Romero, Christian Glinsvad, Ask Hjorth Larsen, Jussi Enkovaara, Sameer Shende, Vitali A. Morozov, Jens J. Mortensen:
  Design and performance characterization of electronic structure calculations on massively parallel supercomputers: a case study of GPAW on the Blue Gene/P architecture. 69-93
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  Xingkong Ma, Yijie Wang, Xiaoqiang Pei, Xiaoyong Li:
  A general scalable and elastic matching service for content-based publish/subscribe systems. 94-118
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  Lanjun Wan, Kenli Li, Jing Liu, Keqin Li:
  GPU implementation of a parallel two-list algorithm for the subset-sum problem. 119-145
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  Jia Li, Xin Luo, Yunni Xia, Yakai Han, Qingsheng Zhu:
  A time series and reduction-based model for modeling and QoS prediction of service compositions. 146-163
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  Jianwei Ma, Wanyu Liu, Tristan Glatard:
  A stateful storage availability and entropy model to control storage distribution on grids. 164-171
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  Vesna Zeljkovic, Milena Bojic, Shengwei Zhao, Claude Tameze, Ventzeslav Valev:
  Exudates and optic disk detection in retinal images of diabetic patients. 172-192
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  Shiv Prakash, Deo Prakash Vidyarthi:
  Maximizing availability for task scheduling in computational grid using genetic algorithm. 193-210
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  Thomas Rauber, Gudula Rünger:
  Modeling and analyzing the energy consumption of fork-join-based task parallel programs. 211-236
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  Dejan Dundjerski, Milo Tomasevic:
  Graphical processing unit-based parallelization of the Open Shortest Path First and Border Gateway Protocol routing protocols. 237-251

Volume 27, Number 2, February 2015

Science Gateway Workshops 2013 (SGW 2013)
Editorial

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  Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Sandra Gesing, Tamás Kiss:
  Science gateway workshops 2013 special issue conference publications. 253-257

Special Issue Papers

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  Rion Dooley, Matthew R. Hanlon:
  Recipes 2.0: building for today and tomorrow. 258-270
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  Antônio Tadeu A. Gomes, Bruno F. Bastos, Vivian Medeiros, Vinícius Macedo Moreira:
  Experiences of the Brazilian national high-performance computing network on the rapid prototyping of science gateways. 271-289
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  Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Kyle Chard, Ian T. Foster, Steven Tuecke:
  Globus platform-as-a-service for collaborative science applications. 290-305
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  Ugo Becciani, Eva Sciacca, Alessandro Costa, Piero Massimino, Costantino Pistagna, Simone Riggi, Fabio Vitello, Catia Petta, Marilena Bandieramonte, Mel Krokos:
  Science gateway technologies for the astrophysics community. 306-327
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  Michael McLennan, Steven M. Clark, Ewa Deelman, Mats Rynge, Karan Vahi, Frank McKenna, Derrick Kearney, Carol X. Song:
  HUBzero and Pegasus: integrating scientific workflows into science gateways. 328-343
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  Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Alexander Hoffmann, Ákos Balaskó, Péter Kacsuk, Georg Birkenheuer, André Brinkmann, Luis de la Garza, Jens Krüger, Sandra Gesing, Richard Grunzke, Gábor Terstyánszky, Noam Weingarten:
  Quantum chemical meta-workflows in MoSGrid. 344-357
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  Richard O. Sinnott, Christopher Bayliss, Andrew J. Bromage, Gerson Galang, Guido Grazioli, Phillip Greenwood, Angus Macaulay, Luca Morandini, Ghazal Nogoorani, Marcos Nino-Ruiz, Martin Tomko, Christopher James Pettit, Muhammad S. Sarwar, Robert Stimson, William Voorsluys, Ivo Widjaja:
  The Australia urban research gateway. 358-375
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  Rafael Amaral, Rosa M. Badia, Ignacio Blanquer, Ricardo Braga-Neto, Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli, Christina Flann, Renato De Giovanni, William Alex Gray, Andrew C. Jones, Daniele Lezzi, Pasquale Pagano, Vanderlei Perez Canhos, Francisco Quevedo, Roger Rafanell, Vinod E. F. Rebello, Mariane S. Sousa-Baena, Erik Torres:
  Supporting biodiversity studies with the EUBrazilOpenBio Hybrid Data Infrastructure. 376-394
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  Yan Liu, Anand Padmanabhan, Shaowen Wang:
  CyberGIS Gateway for enabling data-rich geospatial research and education. 395-407
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  Carol M. Lushbough, Etienne Z. Gnimpieba, Rion Dooley:
  Life science data analysis workflow development using the bioextract server leveraging the iPlant collaborative cyberinfrastructure. 408-419
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  Liya Wang, Doreen Ware, Carol Lushbough, Nirav C. Merchant, Lincoln Stein:
  A genome-wide association study platform built on iPlant cyber-infrastructure. 420-432
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  Peter Z. Kunszt, Lorenz Blum, Béla Hullár, Emanuel Schmid, Adam Srebniak, Witold Wolski, Bernd Rinn, Franz-Josef Elmer, Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan, Andreas Quandt, Lars Malmström:
  iPortal: the swiss grid proteomics portal: Requirements and new features based on experience and usability considerations. 433-445
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  Silvia Crivelli, Rion Dooley, Raquell Holmes, Stephen A. Mock, The WeFold Community:
  Creating a gateway that enables large-scale science coopetition. 446-457
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  Carlo Casarino, Giorgio Russo, Giuliana Candiano, Giuseppe La Rocca, Roberto Barbera, Giovanni Borasi, Susanna Guatelli, Cristina Messa, Gianluca Passaro, Maria Carla Gilardi:
  A GEANT4 web-based application to support Intra-Operative Electron Radiotherapy using the European grid infrastructure. 458-472
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  Subhashini Sivagnanam, Amit Majumdar, Kenneth Yoshimoto, Vadim Astakhov, Anita E. Bandrowski, Maryann E. Martone, Nicholas T. Carnevale:
  Early experiences in developing and managing the neuroscience gateway. 473-488
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  Shayan Shahand, Ammar Benabdelkader, Mohammad Mahdi Jaghoori, Mostapha al Mourabit, Jordi Huguet, Matthan W. A. Caan, Antoine H. C. van Kampen, Sílvia Delgado Olabarriaga:
  A data-centric neuroscience gateway: design, implementation, and experiences. 489-506

Volume 27, Number 3, March 2015

Research Articles

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  Tinghuai Ma, Yinhua Lu, Sunyuan Shi, Wei Tian, Xin Wang, Donghai Guan:
  Data resource discovery model based on hybrid architecture in data grid environment. 507-525
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  Minzhi Yan, Hailong Sun, Xudong Liu, Ting Deng, Xu Wang:
  Delivering Web service load testing as a service with a global cloud. 526-545
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  Richard E. Kavanagh, Karim Djemame:
  An economic market for the brokering of time and budget guarantees. 546-580
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  A. Vapirev, Jan Deca, Giovanni Lapenta, Stefano Markidis, Ibrahim Hur, Jean-Luc Cambier:
  Initial results on computational performance of Intel many integrated core, sandy bridge, and graphical processing unit architectures: implementation of a 1D c++/OpenMP electrostatic particle-in-cell code. 581-593
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  Chia-Jung Chen, Rong-Guey Chang:
  Thermal-aware code transformation across functional units. 594-609
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  Franco Cicirelli, Andrea Giordano, Libero Nigro:
  Efficient environment management for distributed simulation of large-scale situated multi-agent systems. 610-632
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  Carlo Ghezzi, Valerio Panzica La Manna, Alfredo Motta, Giordano Tamburrelli:
  Performance-driven dynamic service selection. 633-650
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  Peter A. Buhr, David Dice, Wim H. Hesselink:
  High-performance N-thread software solutions for mutual exclusion. 651-701
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  Sergio Santander-Jiménez, Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez:
  A hybrid approach to parallelize a fast non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm for phylogenetic inference. 702-734
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  Yan Kong, Minjie Zhang, Dayong Ye:
  A negotiation-based method for task allocation with time constraints in open grid environments. 735-761

Volume 27, Number 4, March 2015

Combined Special Issues on Intelligent e-Services and PPAM 2013
Editorials

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  Farookh Khadeer Hussain:
  Special issue on intelligent e-services. 763-764

Special Issue Papers

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  Rubén Casado, Javier Tuya, Muhammad Younas:
  Evaluating the effectiveness of the abstract transaction model in testing Web services transactions. 765-781
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  Andrew Flahive, David Taniar, J. Wenny Rahayu, Bernady O. Apduhan:
  A methodology for ontology update in the semantic grid environment. 782-808
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  Joanna Kolodziej, Samee Ullah Khan, Lizhe Wang, Albert Y. Zomaya:
  Energy efficient genetic-based schedulers in computational grids. 809-829
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  Jie Lu, Zheng Zheng, Guangquan Zhang, Qing He, Zhongzhi Shi:
  A new solution algorithm for solving rule-sets based bilevel decision problems. 830-854
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  Feilong Tang, Ilsun You, Can Tang, Shui Yu:
  A profiling based task scheduling approach for multicore network processors. 855-869
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  Fatos Xhafa, Alina-Diana Potlog, Evjola Spaho, Florin Pop, Valentin Cristea, Leonard Barolli:
  Evaluation of intra-group optimistic data replication in P2P groupware systems. 870-881

Editorials

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  Roman Wyrzykowski, Marek S. Tudruj:
  10th international conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2013. 882-884

Special Issue Papers

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  José Ignacio Aliaga, Hartwig Anzt, Maribel Castillo, Juan Carlos Fernández, Germán León, Joaquín Pérez, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí:
  Unveiling the performance-energy trade-off in iterative linear system solvers for multithreaded processors. 885-904
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  Mario Berljafa, Daniel Wortmann, Edoardo Di Napoli:
  An optimized and scalable eigensolver for sequences of eigenvalue problems. 905-922
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  Dominik Szalkowski, Przemyslaw Stpiczynski:
  Using distributed memory parallel computers and GPU clusters for multidimensional Monte Carlo integration. 923-936
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  Krzysztof Andrzej Rojek, Milosz Ciznicki, Bogdan Rosa, Piotr Kopta, Michal Kulczewski, Krzysztof Kurowski, Zbigniew Pawel Piotrowski, Lukasz Szustak, Damian Karol Wójcik, Roman Wyrzykowski:
  Adaptation of fluid model EULAG to graphics processing unit architecture. 937-957
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  Yongchao Liu, Bertil Schmidt:
  GSWABE: faster GPU-accelerated sequence alignment with optimal alignment retrieval for short DNA sequences. 958-972
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  Wayne Franz, Parimala Thulasiraman, Ruppa K. Thulasiram:
  Exploration/exploitation of a hybrid-enhanced MPSO-GA algorithm on a fused CPU-GPU architecture. 973-993
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  Fabien Rozar, Guillaume Latu, Jean Roman, Virginie Grandgirard:
  Toward memory scalability of GYSELA code for extreme scale computers. 994-1009
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  Sascha Hunold:
  One step toward bridging the gap between theory and practice in moldable task scheduling with precedence constraints. 1010-1026
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  Marek S. Tudruj, Janusz Borkowski, Damian Kopanski, Eryk Laskowski, Lukasz Masko, Adam Smyk:
  PEGASUS DA framework for distributed program execution control based on application global states monitoring. 1027-1053
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  Thomas Canhao Xu, Ville Leppänen, Pasi Liljeberg, Juha Plosila, Hannu Tenhunen:
  PDNOC: Partially diagonal network-on-chip for high efficiency multicore systems. 1054-1067

Volume 27, Number 5, April 2015

Research Articles

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  Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Michel R. Dagenais:
  Cube data model for multilevel statistics computation of live execution traces. 1069-1091
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  Bin Xing, Zhen Han, Xiaolin Chang, Jiqiang Liu:
  OB-IMA: out-of-the-box integrity measurement approach for guest virtual machines. 1092-1109
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  Yonghong Hu, Qiang Li, Zongyan Cao, Jue Wang:
  Parallel simulation of high-dimensional American option pricing based on CPU versus MIC. 1110-1121
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  Juliana M. N. Silva, Cristina Boeres, Lúcia M. A. Drummond, Artur Alves Pessoa:
  Memory aware load balance strategy on a parallel branch-and-bound application. 1122-1144
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  Henri Casanova, Frédéric Desprez, George S. Markomanolis, Frédéric Suter:
  Simulation of MPI applications with time-independent traces. 1145-1168
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  Sabela Ramos, Guillermo L. Taboada, Roberto R. Expósito, Juan Touriño:
  Nonblocking collectives for scalable Java communications. 1169-1187
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  Lawrence Yao, Fethi A. Rabhi:
  Building architectures for data-intensive science using the ADAGE framework. 1188-1206
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  Nidhi Jain Kansal, Inderveer Chana:
  Artificial bee colony based energy-aware resource utilization technique for cloud computing. 1207-1225
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  Sayed Chhattan Shah:
  Energy efficient and robust allocation of interdependent tasks on mobile ad hoc computational grid. 1226-1254
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  Johanne Cohen, Daniel Cordeiro, Denis Trystram:
  Coordination mechanisms for decentralized parallel systems. 1255-1272
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  Jonathan Chow, Nasser Giacaman, Oliver Sinnen:
  Pipeline pattern in an object-oriented, task-parallel environment. 1273-1291
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  Simplice Donfack, Jack J. Dongarra, Mathieu Faverge, Mark Gates, Jakub Kurzak, Piotr Luszczek, Ichitaro Yamazaki:
  A survey of recent developments in parallel implementations of Gaussian elimination. 1292-1309
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  Anton Beloglazov, Rajkumar Buyya:
  OpenStack Neat: a framework for dynamic and energy-efficient consolidation of virtual machines in OpenStack clouds. 1310-1333
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  Chao Jing, Yanmin Zhu, Minglu Li:
  Customer satisfaction-aware scheduling for utility maximization on geo-distributed data centers. 1334-1354
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  Yi Liu, Yushun Fan, Keman Huang, Wei Tan:
  Failure analysis and tolerance strategies in web service ecosystems. 1355-1374

Volume 27, Number 6, April 2015

Combined Special Issues on International conference on enabling technologies: Infrastructure for collaborative enterprises (WETICE) and Parallel computing on graphics processing units and heterogeneous platforms
Editorials

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  Khalil Drira, Sumitra Reddy:
  International conference on enabling technologies: Infrastructure for collaborative enterprises (WETICE). 1375-1377

Special Issue Papers

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  Nesrine Khabou, Ismael Bouassida Rodriguez:
  Threshold-based context analysis approach for ubiquitous systems. 1378-1390
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  Fatma Krichen, Brahim Hamid, Bechir Zalila, Mohamed Jmaiel, Bernard Coulette:
  Development of reconfigurable distributed embedded systems with a model-driven approach. 1391-1411
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  Mahdi Ben Alaya, Thierry Monteil:
  FRAMESELF: an ontology-based framework for the self-management of machine-to-machine systems. 1412-1426
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  Mohamed Sellami, Walid Gaaloul, Bruno Defude:
  A decentralized and service-based solution for data mediation: the case for data providing service compositions. 1427-1444
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  Kevin P. Brown, Michael A. Hayes, David S. Allison, Miriam A. M. Capretz, Margaret Sazio, Rupinder Mann:
  Fine-grained filtering to provide access control for data providing services within collaborative environments. 1445-1466
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  Antonio Cuomo, Massimiliano Rak, Umberto Villano:
  Planting parallel program simulation on the cloud. 1467-1482
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  Magdalena Punceva, Ivan Rodero, Manish Parashar, Omer F. Rana, Ioan Petri:
  Incentivising resource sharing in social clouds. 1483-1497
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  Rosario Giunta, Fabrizio Messina, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Emiliano Tramontana:
  Providing QoS strategies and cloud-integration to web servers by means of aspects. 1498-1512
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  Nicola Capodieci, Emanuel Federico Alsina, Giacomo Cabri:
  Context-awareness in the deregulated electric energy market: an agent-based approach. 1513-1524

Editorials

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  Paolo Bientinesi, José R. Herrero, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, Robert Strzodka:
  Parallel computing on graphics processing units and heterogeneous platforms. 1525-1527

Special Issue Papers

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  Julien Jaeger, Patrick Carribault, Marc Pérache:
  Fine-grain data management directory for OpenMP 4.0 and OpenACC. 1528-1539
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  José Ignacio Aliaga, José M. Badía, Maribel Castillo, Davor Davidovic, Rafael Mayo, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí:
  Out-of-core macromolecular simulations on multithreaded architectures. 1540-1550
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  Boguslaw Rymut, Bogdan Kwolek:
  Real-time multiview human pose tracking using graphics processing unit-accelerated particle swarm optimization. 1551-1563
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  Sebastian Dreßler, Thomas Steinke:
  An automated approach for estimating the memory footprint of nonlinear data objects. 1564-1574
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  Jun Zhu, Alexey L. Lastovetsky, Shoukat Ali, Rolf Riesen, Khalid Hasanov:
  Asymmetric communication models for resource-constrained hierarchical ethernet networks. 1575-1590
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  Joanna Porter-Sobieraj, Sebastian Cygert, Daniel Kikola, Jan Sikorski, Marcin Slodkowski:
  Optimizing the computation of a parallel 3D finite difference algorithm for graphics processing units. 1591-1602
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  Grzegorz Tomasz Kowalik, Jennifer Anne Steeden, Vivek Muthurangu:
  Implementation of a generalized heterogeneous image reconstruction system for clinical magnetic resonance. 1603-1611
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  Anne Benoit, Louis-Claude Canon, Loris Marchal:
  Non-clairvoyant reduction algorithms for heterogeneous platforms. 1612-1624
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  Raphaël Bleuse, Safia Kedad-Sidhoum, Florence Monna, Grégory Mounié, Denis Trystram:
  Scheduling independent tasks on multi-cores with GPU accelerators. 1625-1638

Volume 27, Number 7, May 2015

Research Articles

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  Zhisong Fu, Sergey Yakovlev, Robert Michael Kirby, Ross T. Whitaker:
  Fast parallel solver for the levelset equations on unstructured meshes. 1639-1657
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  Luis Carlos Erpen De Bona, Elias P. Duarte Jr., Keiko Verônica Ono Fonseca:
  A distributed virtual hypercube algorithm for maintaining scalable and dynamic network overlays. 1658-1678
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  Andrew M. Olson, Rajeev R. Raje, Barun Devaraju, Lahiru S. Gallege:
  Learning improves service discovery. 1679-1694
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  Kathleen Ericson, Shrideep Pallickara, Charles W. Anderson:
  Failure-resilient real-time processing of health streams. 1695-1717
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  Thi Yen Phuong, Jeong-Gun Lee:
  Design space exploration of SW beamformer on GPU. 1718-1733
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  Jens Dörre, Sven Apel, Christian Lengauer:
  Modeling and optimizing MapReduce programs. 1734-1766
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  Luiz Rodolpho Monnerat, Cláudio L. Amorim:
  An effective single-hop distributed hash table with high lookup performance and low traffic overhead. 1767-1788
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  Giacomo V. McEvoy, Antonio Roberto Mury, Bruno Schulze:
  An analysis of definition and placement of virtual machines for high performance applications on Clouds. 1789-1814

Volume 27, Number 8, June 2015

Combined Special Issues on The Internet of Things: shaping the new Internet space and Advances on cloud services and cloud computing
Editorials

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  Navonil Mustafee, Nik Bessis:
  The Internet of Things: shaping the new Internet space. 1815-1818

Special Issue Papers

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  Shuai Zhao, Yang Zhang, Le Yu, Bo Cheng, Yang Ji, Junliang Chen:
  A multidimensional resource model for dynamic resource matching in internet of things. 1819-1843
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  Xiang Su, Jukka Riekki, Jukka K. Nurminen, Johanna Nieminen, Markus Koskimies:
  Adding semantics to internet of things. 1844-1860
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  Bo Li, Jianxin Li, Lu Liu:
  CloudMon: a resource-efficient IaaS cloud monitoring system based on networked intrusion detection system virtual appliances. 1861-1885
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  Ioannis A. Moschakis, Helen D. Karatza:
  Towards scheduling for Internet-of-Things applications on clouds: a simulated annealing approach. 1886-1899
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  Florin Pop, Radu-Ioan Ciobanu, Ciprian Dobre:
  Adaptive method to support social-based mobile networks using a pagerank approach. 1900-1912
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  Sebastian Sonntag, Henna Suomi:
  Economic feasibility of multipath protocols in mobile Internet of Things applications. 1913-1931
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  Mahdi Asadpour, Mohammad Torabi Dashti:
  Scalable, privacy preserving radio-frequency identification protocol for the internet of things. 1932-1950
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  Sultan Alamri, David Taniar, Maytham Safar, Haidar Al-Khalidi:
  Tracking moving objects using topographical indexing. 1951-1965
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  Ahsan Ikram, Ashiq Anjum, Richard Hill, Nick Antonopoulos, Lu Liu, Stelios Sotiriadis:
  Approaching the Internet of things (IoT): a modelling, analysis and abstraction framework. 1966-1984

Editorials

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  Leonard Barolli, Xiaofeng Chen, Fatos Xhafa:
  Advances on cloud services and cloud computing. 1985-1987

Special Issue Papers

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  Jorge Miguel, Santi Caballé, Fatos Xhafa, Josep Prieto:
  A massive data processing approach for effective trustworthiness in online learning groups. 1988-2003
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  Kaitai Liang, Liming Fang, Duncan S. Wong, Willy Susilo:
  A ciphertext-policy attribute-based proxy re-encryption scheme for data sharing in public clouds. 2004-2027
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  Andrew Flahive, David Taniar, J. Wenny Rahayu:
  Ontology as a Service (OaaS): extending sub-ontologies on the cloud. 2028-2040
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  Zhusong Liu, Zhike Li, Sheng Sun, Yunfa Li:
  An auditing mechanism for the security of service in grid. 2041-2053
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  Makoto Ikeda, Taiki Honda, Leonard Barolli:
  Performance of optimized link state routing protocol for video streaming application in vehicular ad-hoc networks cloud computing. 2054-2063
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  Rong Sun, Xin Cai, Jingwei Liu, Kyung Sup Kwak:
  Distributed SR-LDPC codes over multiple-access relay channel and its applications in cloud storage. 2064-2077
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  Rubén Casado, Muhammad Younas:
  Emerging trends and technologies in big data processing. 2078-2091
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  Jing Li, Mingying Wu, Jianhua Ge, Chensi Zhang, Florin Pop, Yingguan Wang:
  Performance analysis of bidirectional cloud networks with imperfect channel state information. 2092-2106
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  Massimo Ficco, Francesco Palmieri, Aniello Castiglione:
  Modeling security requirements for cloud-based system development. 2107-2124
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  Jiang Zhang, Zhenfeng Zhang:
  Secure and efficient data-sharing in clouds. 2125-2143
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  Haolong Fan, Farookh Khadeer Hussain, Omar Khadeer Hussain:
  Semantic client-side approach for web personalization of SaaS-based cloud services. 2144-2169
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  Rong Cheng, Fangguo Zhang:
  Obfuscation for multi-use re-encryption and its application in cloud computing. 2170-2190

Volume 27, Number 9, June 2015

Combined Special Issues on High-performance computing and simulation (HPCS 2011) and Resource orchestration for cloud computing (SIRCC 2012)
Editorials

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  Waleed W. Smari, Sandro Fiore, Carsten Trinitis:
  Recent developments in high-performance computing and simulation: distributed systems, architectures, algorithms, and applications. 2191-2195

Special Issue Papers

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  Ralf Jahr, Horia Calborean, Lucian Vintan, Theo Ungerer:
  Finding near-perfect parameters for hardware and code optimizations with automatic multi-objective design space explorations. 2196-2214
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  Alexander Heinecke, Carsten Trinitis:
  Cache-oblivious matrix algorithms in the age of multicores and many cores. 2215-2234
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  Carsten Clauss, Stefan Lankes, Pablo Reble, Thomas Bemmerl:
  New system software for parallel programming models on the Intel SCC many-core processor. 2235-2259
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  José Luis Lucas-Simarro, Rafael Moreno-Vozmediano, Rubén S. Montero, Ignacio Martín Llorente:
  Cost optimization of virtual infrastructures in dynamic multi-cloud scenarios. 2260-2277
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  Ismael Marín Carrión, Eduardo Huedo, Ignacio Martín Llorente:
  Interoperating grid infrastructures with the GridWay metascheduler. 2278-2290
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  Prapaporn Rattanatamrong, José A. B. Fortes:
  Improved real-time scheduling of periodic tasks on multiprocessors. 2291-2309
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  Selvi Kadirvel, José A. B. Fortes:
  Towards self-caring MapReduce: a study of performance penalties under faults. 2310-2328
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  Laura Ricci, Luca Genovali, Emanuele Carlini, Massimo Coppola:
  AOI-cast in distributed virtual environments: an approach based on delay tolerant reverse compass routing. 2329-2350
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  Nuno Sebastião, Gustavo Encarnação, Nuno Roma:
  Implementation and performance analysis of efficient index structures for DNA search algorithms in parallel platforms. 2351-2368

Editorials

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  Rajiv Ranjan, Rajkumar Buyya, Surya Nepal, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos:
  A note on resource orchestration for cloud computing. 2370-2372

Special Issue Papers

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  Shaoqian Zhang, Wan-Chun Dou, Jinjun Chen:
  A service evaluation method for cross-cloud service choreography. 2373-2389
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  Félix Gómez Mármol, Marcus Quintino Kuhnen:
  Reputation-based Web service orchestration in cloud computing: A survey. 2390-2412
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  Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Quoc Bao Vo, Ryszard Kowalczyk:
  AutoSLAM - A policy-based framework for automated SLA establishment in cloud environments. 2413-2442
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  Dana Petcu, Silviu Panica, Ciprian Craciun, Marian Neagul, Calin Sandru:
  Cloud resource orchestration within an open-source component-based platform as a service. 2443-2469
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  Wenhong Tian, Chee Shin Yeo:
  Minimizing total busy time in offline parallel scheduling with application to energy efficiency in cloud computing. 2470-2488
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  Yanhua Miao, Lizhe Wang, Dingsheng Liu, Yan Ma, Wanfeng Zhang, Lajiao Chen:
  A Web 2.0-based science gateway for massive remote sensing image processing. 2489-2501

Volume 27, Number 10, July 2015

Availability, resilience, and fault tolerance of internet and distributed computing systems (IDCS 2013)
Editorial

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  Yang Xiang, Mukaddim Pathan, Guiyi Wei, Giancarlo Fortino:
  Availability, resilience, and fault tolerance of internet and distributed computing systems. 2503-2505

Special Issue Papers

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  Francesco Longo, Dario Bruneo, Salvatore Distefano, Marco Scarpa:
  Variable operating conditions in distributed systems: modeling and evaluation. 2506-2530
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  Pablo Carreño, Francisco J. Gutierrez, Sergio F. Ochoa, Giancarlo Fortino:
  Supporting personal security using participatory sensing. 2531-2546
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  Atsuko Miyaji, Kazumasa Omote:
  Self-healing wireless sensor networks. 2547-2568
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  Vinh Van Phan, Hoon Oh:
  A slot demand-based path reservation approach for the timely and reliable delivery of bursty traffic in WMSNs. 2569-2587
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  Le The Dung, Beongku An:
  SCRRM: a stability-aware cooperative routing scheme for reliable high-speed data transmission in multi-rate mobile ad hoc wireless networks. 2588-2601
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  Shilin Lu, Rajiv Ranjan, Peter Strazdins:
  Reporting an experience on design and implementation of e-Health systems on Azure cloud. 2602-2615
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  Jinlin Zhang, Jun Shao, Yun Ling, Min Ji, Guiyi Wei, Bishan Ying:
  Efficient multiple sources network coding signature in the standard model. 2616-2636
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  Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, S. M. Kamruzzaman, Atif Alamri, Ahmad Almogren, Abdulhameed Alelaiwi, Mohammed Abdullah Alnuem, Md. Manowarul Islam, Md. Abdur Razzaque:
  Design of an energy-efficient and reliable data delivery mechanism for mobile ad hoc networks: a cross-layer approach. 2637-2655
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  Jin Wang, Liwu Zuo, Jian Shen, Bin Li, Sungyoung Lee:
  Multiple mobile sink-based routing algorithm for data dissemination in wireless sensor networks. 2656-2667
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  Mande Xie, Urmila Bhanja, Guiyi Wei, Yun Ling, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Atif Alamri:
  SecNRCC: a loss-tolerant secure network reprogramming with confidentiality consideration for wireless sensor networks. 2668-2680

Volume 27, Number 11, August 2015

Contemporary computer supported collaboration: systems, technologies, algorithms, and applications (CTS 2013)
Editorial

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  Waleed W. Smari, Antonio M. Navarro, William K. McQuay:
  Contemporary Computer Supported Collaboration: Systems, Technologies, Algorithms, and Applications. 2681-2685

Special Issue Papers

• 
  Brian Drabble:
  Dependency-based collaborative design: a comparison of modeling methods. 2686-2705
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  Kazuaki Tanaka, Hideyuki Nakanishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro:
  Appearance, motion, and embodiment: unpacking avatars by fine-grained communication analysis. 2706-2724
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  Christoph Dorn, Richard N. Taylor:
  Analyzing runtime adaptability of collaboration patterns. 2725-2750
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  Alan Davoust, Hala Skaf-Molli, Pascal Molli, Babak Esfandiari, Khaled Aslan:
  Distributed wikis: a survey. 2751-2777
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  Alan Davoust, Alexander Craig, Babak Esfandiari, Vincent Kazmierski:
  P2Pedia: a peer-to-peer wiki for decentralized collaboration. 2778-2795
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  Michele Missikoff, Fabrizio Smith, Francesco Taglino:
  Ontology building and maintenance in collaborative virtual environments. 2796-2817
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  Alessandro Aldini, Fabio Martinelli, Andrea Saracino, Daniele Sgandurra:
  Detection of repackaged mobile applications through a collaborative approach. 2818-2838
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  Liang Kong, Gavin Bauer, John Hale:
  Robust wireless signal indoor localization. 2839-2850
• 
  Bo Tang, Ravi S. Sandhu, Qi Li:
  Multi-tenancy authorization models for collaborative cloud services. 2851-2868
• 
  Fabian Lang, Andreas Fink:
  Collaborative machine scheduling: Challenges of individually optimizing behavior. 2869-2888
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  Danilo Pani, Gianluca Barabino, Alessia Dessì, Selene Uras, Luigi Raffo:
  The challenge of collaborative telerehabilitation: conception and evaluation of a telehealth system enhancement for home-therapy follow-up. 2889-2906

Volume 27, Number 12, August 2015

Frontier technologies of trust computing and network security (TrustCom 2012)
Editorial

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  Yang Xiang, Ahmed Al-Dubi, Lei Liu, Xiaowen Chu:
  Frontier technologies of trust computing and network security. 2907-2909

Special Issue Papers

• 
  Hongjun Dai, Huabo Liu, Zhiping Jia:
  Dynamic malicious node detection with semi-supervised multivariate classification in cognitive wireless sensor networks. 2910-2923
• 
  Yong Wang, Jie Hou, Yun Xia, Hong-Zong Li:
  Efficient privacy preserving matchmaking for mobile social networking. 2924-2937
• 
  Mahdi Aiash:
  A formal analysis of authentication protocols for mobile devices in next generation networks. 2938-2953
• 
  Minghui Zheng, Hui-Hua Zhou, Jing Chen:
  An efficient protocol for two-party explicit authenticated key agreement. 2954-2963
• 
  Adrian J. Duncan, Sadie Creese, Michael Goldsmith:
  An overview of insider attacks in cloud computing. 2964-2981
• 
  Gang Chen, Hai Jin, Deqing Zou, Bing Bing Zhou, Weizhong Qiang:
  A lightweight software fault-tolerance system in the cloud environment. 2982-2998
• 
  Arshad Jhumka, Matthew Bradbury, Matthew Leeke:
  Fake source-based source location privacy in wireless sensor networks. 2999-3020
• 
  Chi Lin, Guowei Wu, Chang-Wu Yu:
  Protecting location privacy and query privacy: a combined clustering approach. 3021-3043
• 
  Guanghai Cui, Mingchu Li, Zhen Wang, Jiankang Ren, Dong Jiao, Jianhua Ma:
  Analysis and evaluation of incentive mechanisms in P2P networks: a spatial evolutionary game theory perspective. 3044-3064
• 
  Lanping Chen, Zhengzhi Han, Zhenghua Ma:
  Robust stabilization design for large-scale parameterized nonlinear switched systems. 3065-3074
• 
  Yuzhu Cheng, Weiping Wang, Geyong Min, Jianxin Wang:
  A new approach to designing firewall based on multidimensional matrix. 3075-3088
• 
  Rosanne English:
  Simulating and modelling the effectiveness of graphical password intersection attacks. 3089-3107
• 
  John Edstrom, Eli Tilevich:
  Improving the survivability of RESTful Web applications via declarative fault tolerance. 3108-3125
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  Ruixuan Li, Huaqing Li, Xiwu Gu, Yuhua Li, Wei Ye, Xiaopu Ma:
  Role mining based on cardinality constraints. 3126-3144

Volume 27, Number 13, September 2015

Combined Special Issues on High-performance computing: to boldly go where no human has gone before (HPCS 2012) and Advances in parallel and distributed computing and communications (HPCC 2012)
Editorials

• 
  Sébastien Limet, Waleed W. Smari, Luca Spalazzi:
  High-performance computing: to boldly go where no human has gone before. 3145-3165

Special Issue Papers

• 
  Paolo Trunfio:
  A two-layer model for improving the energy efficiency of file sharing peer-to-peer networks. 3166-3183
• 
  Mihai Alexandru, Thierry Monteil, Petr Lorenz, Fabio Coccetti, Hervé Aubert:
  Large electromagnetic simulation by hybrid approach on large-scale parallel computing systems. 3184-3204
• 
  Gloria Ortega López, Julia Lobera, Inmaculada García, María del Pilar Arroyo, Ester M. Garzón:
  Parallel resolution of the 3D Helmholtz equation based on multi-graphics processing unit clusters. 3205-3219
• 
  Antonio J. Rubio-Montero, Francisco Castejón, Eduardo Huedo, Rafael Mayo-García:
  A novel pilot job approach for improving the execution of distributed codes: application to the study of ordering in collisional transport in fusion plasmas. 3220-3244
• 
  Samuel Neves, Filipe Araújo:
  Straight-line programs for fast sparse matrix-vector multiplication. 3245-3261
• 
  Joseph Schneible, Lubomir Riha, Maria Malik, Tarek A. El-Ghazawi, Andrei Alexandru:
  Communication efficient work distributions in stencil operation based applications. 3262-3280
• 
  Ping Guo, Liqiang Wang:
  Accurate cross-architecture performance modeling for sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) on GPUs. 3281-3294
• 
  Marco Picone, Michele Amoretti, Marco Martalò, Francesco Zanichelli, Gianluigi Ferrari:
  Combining geo-referencing and network coding for distributed large-scale information management. 3295-3315
• 
  Giuliano Manno, Waleed W. Smari, Luca Spalazzi, Gilberto Taccari:
  A semantic-based federated cloud system for emergency response. 3316-3344
• 
  Tsozen Yeh, Shuwen Yang, Yifeng Sun:
  Improving the program performance through prioritized memory management and disk operation. 3345-3361
• 
  Emanuele Carlini, Laura Ricci, Massimo Coppola:
  Integrating centralized and peer-to-peer architectures to support interest management in massively multiplayer on-line games. 3362-3382
• 
  Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Claude Mazel, David R. C. Hill:
  TaskLocalRandom: a statistically sound substitute to pseudorandom number generation in parallel java tasks frameworks. 3383-3398
• 
  Yu-Shiang Lin, Chun-Yuan Lin, Che-Lun Hung, Yeh-Ching Chung, Kual-Zheng Lee:
  GPU-UPGMA: high-performance computing for UPGMA algorithm based on graphics processing units. 3403-3414
• 
  Jehad A. Al-Sadi:
  Factor-Optical-Factor Exchanges Method: a new load balancing method for Extended Optical Transpose Interconnection System-n-Cube networks. 3415-3428
• 
  Ying An, Xi Luo, Yao Liu, Jiawei Huang, Geyong Min, Jianxin Wang:
  A congestion control scheme based on probabilistic packet acceptance and drop in delay-tolerant networks. 3429-3445
• 
  Shidong Li, Hui-Hua Zhou, Jia Hu, Qing Ai, Chao Cai:
  A fast path planning approach for unmanned aerial vehicles. 3446-3460
• 
  Zhaobin Liu, Wenyu Qu, Weijiang Liu, Zhiyang Li, Yujie Xu:
  Resource preprocessing and optimal task scheduling in cloud computing environments. 3461-3482
• 
  Lei Liu, Hua Wang, Guohong Kong:
  An improved EDA for solving Steiner tree problem. 3483-3496
• 
  Jingguo Ge, Zhi Chen, Yulei Wu, Yuepeng E.:
  H-SOFT: a heuristic storage space optimisation algorithm for flow table of OpenFlow. 3497-3509
• 
  Hancong Duan, Wenhan Zhan, Geyong Min, Hui Guo, Shengmei Luo:
  A high-performance distributed file system for large-scale concurrent HD video streams. 3510-3522
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  Hao Yin, Bo Qiao, Yan Luo, Chen Tian, Yang Richard Yang:
  Demystifying commercial content delivery networks in China. 3523-3538

Volume 27, Number 14, September 2015

Research Articles

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  María Botón-Fernández, Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez, Francisco Prieto Castrillo:
  Intelligent self-adaptive resources selection for grid applications. 3539-3560
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  Stéphane Chrétien, Jean-Marc Nicod, Laurent Philippe, Veronika Rehn-Sonigo, Lamiel Toch:
  Using a sparse promoting method in linear programming approximations to schedule parallel jobs. 3561-3586
• 
  Atilla Soner Balkir, Hüseyin Oktay, Ian T. Foster:
  Estimating graph distance and centrality on shared nothing architectures. 3587-3613
• 
  Xiaoyong Li, Yijie Wang, Yongquan Fu, Xiaoling Li, Weidong Sun:
  BLOR: An efficient bandwidth and latency sensitive overlay routing approach for flash data dissemination. 3614-3632
• 
  Giovanni Agosta, Alessandro Barenghi, Alessandro Di Federico, Gerardo Pelosi:
  OpenCL performance portability for general-purpose computation on graphics processor units: an exploration on cryptographic primitives. 3633-3660
• 
  Xinqiang Miao, Xianlong Jin, Junhong Ding:
  A new hybrid solver with two-level parallel computing for large-scale structural analysis. 3661-3675
• 
  Enrique Soriano-Salvador, Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz, Francisco J. Ballesteros:
  Optimistic semaphores with non-deterministic choice operation for heterogeneous manycore systems. 3676-3701
• 
  Fengguang Song, Jack J. Dongarra:
  A scalable approach to solving dense linear algebra problems on hybrid CPU-GPU systems. 3702-3723
• 
  Ciprian Docan, Fan Zhang, Tong Jin, Hoang Bui, Qian Sun, Julian C. Cummings, Norbert Podhorszki, Scott Klasky, Manish Parashar:
  ActiveSpaces: Exploring dynamic code deployment for extreme scale data processing. 3724-3745
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  Carlos Reaño, Federico Silla, Adrián Castelló, Antonio J. Peña, Rafael Mayo, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, José Duato:
  Improving the user experience of the rCUDA remote GPU virtualization framework. 3746-3770
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  Yuan Tao, Yangdong Deng, Shuai Mu, Zhenzhong Zhang, Mingfa Zhu, Limin Xiao, Li Ruan:
  GPU accelerated sparse matrix-vector multiplication and sparse matrix-transpose vector multiplication. 3771-3789

Volume 27, Number 15, October 2015

Combined Special Issues on Trust and security in wireless sensor networks and Semantics, knowledge and grids (SKG 2013)
Editorials

• 
  Mehmet A. Orgun, Atilla Elçi, Josef Pieprzyk, Alexander G. Chefranov, Rajan Shankaran, Huaxiong Wang:
  Special issue on trust and security in wireless sensor networks. 3791-3793

Special Issue Papers

• 
  Vijay Varadharajan, Udaya Kiran Tupakula:
  Securing wireless mobile nodes from distributed denial-of-service attacks. 3794-3815
• 
  Manuel Peralta, Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Ramesh Bharadwaj:
  Reasoning about security in sensor networks. 3816-3841
• 
  Giuseppe Lo Re, Fabrizio Milazzo, Marco Ortolani:
  Secure random number generation in wireless sensor networks. 3842-3862
• 
  Lin Yao, Lin Kang, Fangyu Deng, Jing Deng, Guowei Wu:
  Protecting source-location privacy based on multirings in wireless sensor networks. 3863-3876
• 
  Chun Ruan:
  Designing and evaluating weighted delegatable authorizations. 3877-3891
• 
  Zhaohui Tang:
  Homomorphic authentication codes for network coding. 3892-3911

Editorials

• 
  Hai Zhuge:
  Semantics, knowledge and grids. 3912-3914

Special Issue Papers

• 
  Yongli Ren, Gang Li, Wanlei Zhou:
  A survey of recommendation techniques based on offline data processing. 3915-3942
• 
  Sami Yangui, Samir Tata:
  The SPD approach to deploy service-based applications in the cloud. 3943-3960
• 
  Jin Liu, Juan Li, Xiaohui Cui, Xiaoguang Niu, Xiaoping Sun, Jing Zhou:
  Social sensing enhanced time estimation for bus service. 3961-3981
• 
  Jingqiang Chen, Hai Zhuge:
  Aimed information quantity in text. 3982-4000
• 
  Yang Liu, Xiangfeng Luo, Junyu Xuan:
  Online hot event discovery based on Association Link Network. 4001-4014
• 
  Li Zhang, Xiaoping Sun, Hai Zhuge:
  Topic discovery of clusters from documents with geographical location. 4015-4038
• 
  Li Peng, Zhiying Zhang, Qiaoli Huang, Zhixing Huang, Hai Zhuge:
  Designing a novel linear-time graph kernel for semantic link network. 4039-4052
• 
  Hai H. Wang, Nick Gibbins, Terry R. Payne, Alina Patelli, Yangang Wang:
  A survey of Semantic Web Services formalisms. 4053-4072

Volume 27, Number 16, November 2015

Combined Special Issues on Euro-Par 2014, Recent advances in parallel computing and distributed network (U-Science 2014) and Science gateway workshops (SGW 2014)
Editorials

• 
  Christian Lengauer, Luc Bougé, Fernando M. A. Silva:
  Special Issue: Euro-Par 2014. 4073-4074

Special Issue Papers

• 
  Luka Stanisic, Samuel Thibault, Arnaud Legrand, Brice Videau, Jean-François Méhaut:
  Faithful performance prediction of a dynamic task-based runtime system for heterogeneous multi-core architectures. 4075-4090
• 
  Lehel Nyers, Márk Jelasity:
  A comparative study of spanning tree and gossip protocols for aggregation. 4091-4106
• 
  Scott T. Roche, Arnold L. Rosenberg, Rajmohan Rajaraman:
  On constructing DAG-schedules with large areas. 4107-4121
• 
  Lars Hunger, Biagio Cosenza, Stefan Kimeswenger, Thomas Fahringer:
  Spectral turning bands for efficient Gaussian random fields generation on GPUs and accelerators. 4122-4136

Editorials

• 
  Zhiyang Li, Keqiu Li:
  Recent advances in parallel computing and distributed network. 4137-4139

Special Issue Papers

• 
  Bing Tang, Haiwu He, Gilles Fedak:
  HybridMR: a new approach for hybrid MapReduce combining desktop grid and cloud infrastructures. 4140-4155
• 
  Changqing Ji, Wenyu Qu, Zhiyang Li, Yujie Xu, Yuanyuan Li, Junfeng Wu:
  Scalable multi-dimensional RNN query processing. 4156-4171
• 
  Xinnan Dong, Mei Wen, Jun Chai, Xing Cai, Mandan Zhao, Chunyuan Zhang:
  Communication-hiding programming for clusters with multi-coprocessor nodes. 4172-4185
• 
  F. Zhang, Ke Qiu, J. S. Kim:
  Hyper-star graphs: Some topological properties and an optimal neighbourhood broadcasting algorithm. 4186-4193
• 
  Heng Qi, Yang Li, Keqiu Li, Milos Stojmenovic:
  An exchanged folded hypercube-based topology structure for interconnection networks. 4194-4210
• 
  Fan Yang, Fengli Zhang, Jiahao Wang, Zhiguang Qin, Xiaolu Yuan:
  Distance-bounding trust protocol in anonymous radio-frequency identification systems. 4211-4229
• 
  Yuxia Cheng, Wenzhi Chen, Zonghui Wang, Xinjie Yu, Yang Xiang:
  AMC: an adaptive multi-level cache algorithm in hybrid storage systems. 4230-4246

Editorials

• 
  Sandra Gesing, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr:
  Science gateway workshops 2014 special issue conference publications. 4247-4251

Special Issue Papers

• 
  Katherine A. Lawrence, Michael G. Zentner, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Julie A. Wernert, Marlon E. Pierce, Suresh Marru, Scott Michael:
  Science gateways today and tomorrow: positive perspectives of nearly 5000 members of the research community. 4252-4268
• 
  Shayan Shahand, Jeroen van Duffelen, Sílvia Delgado Olabarriaga:
  Reflections on science gateways sustainability through the business model canvas: case study of a neuroscience gateway. 4269-4281
• 
  Marlon E. Pierce, Suresh Marru, Lahiru Gunathilake, Don Kushan Wijeratne, Raminder Singh, Chathuri Wimalasena, Shameera Ratnayaka, Sudhakar Pamidighantam:
  Apache Airavata: design and directions of a science gateway framework. 4282-4291
• 
  Emre H. Brookes, Nadeem Anjum, Joseph E. Curtis, Suresh Marru, Raminder Singh, Marlon E. Pierce:
  The GenApp framework integrated with Airavata for managed compute resource submissions. 4292-4303
• 
  Shreyas Cholia, Terence Sun:
  The NEWT platform: an extensible plugin framework for creating ReSTful HPC APIs. 4304-4317
• 
  Miguel Caballer, J. Damian Segrelles Quilis, Germán Moltó, Ignacio Blanquer:
  A platform to deploy customized scientific virtual infrastructures on the cloud. 4318-4329
• 
  Enis Afgan, Nathan Coraor, John Chilton, Dannon Baker, James Taylor, The Galaxy Team:
  Enabling cloud bursting for life sciences within Galaxy. 4330-4343
• 
  Ravi K. Madduri, Kyle Chard, Ryan Chard, Lukasz Lacinski, Alex A. Rodriguez, Dinanath Sulakhe, David Kelly, Utpal J. Dave, Ian T. Foster:
  The Globus Galaxies platform: delivering science gateways as a service. 4344-4360
• 
  Fabio Vitello, Eva Sciacca, Ugo Becciani, Alessandro Costa, Piero Massimino, Éva Takács, Balázs Szakál:
  Mobile application development exploiting science gateway technologies. 4361-4376
• 
  Hoang Anh Nguyen, David Abramson, Timoleon Kipouros, Andrew L. Janke, Graham J. Galloway:
  WorkWays: interacting with scientific workflows. 4377-4397
• 
  Ákos Hajnal, Istvan Marton, Zoltán Farkas, Péter Kacsuk:
  Remote storage management in science gateways via data bridging. 4398-4411
• 
  Matthew R. Hanlon, Matthew Vaughn, Stephen A. Mock, Rion Dooley, Walter Moreira, Joe Stubbs, Christopher Town, Jason R. Miller, Vivek Krishnakumar, Erik S. Ferlanti, Eleanor Pence:
  Araport: an application platform for data discovery. 4412-4422
• 
  Raffaele Montella, David Kelly, Wei Xiong, Alison Brizius, Joshua Elliott, Ravi K. Madduri, Ketan Maheshwari, Cheryl H. Porter, Peter Vilter, Michael Wilde, Meng Zhang, Ian T. Foster:
  FACE-IT: A science gateway for food security research. 4423-4436
• 
  Hao Hu, Tao Lin, Yan Y. Liu, Shaowen Wang, Luis F. Rodriguez:
  CyberGIS-BioScope: a cyberinfrastructure-based spatial decision-making environment for biomass-to-biofuel supply chain optimization. 4437-4450
• 
  Yuri G. Gordienko, Lev Bekenov, Olexandra Baskova, Olexander Gatsenko, Elena Zasimchuk, Sergii G. Stirenko:
  IMP Science Gateway: from the Portal to the Hub of Virtual Experimental Labs in e-Science and Multiscale Courses in e-Learning. 4451-4464
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  Jie Wu, Krishnaprasad Narayanan, Lars Nagel, Christoph Fiehe, Anna Litvina, Jakob Tonn, Carsten Zoth, Hans-Joachim Goltz, Steffen Unger, Fabian Pursche, Michael Scheel, André Brinkmann, Wolfgang Thronicke:
  Building a medical research cloud in the EASI-CLOUDS project. 4465-4477
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  Mohammad Mahdi Jaghoori, Allard J. van Altena, Boris Bleijlevens, Sara Ramezani, Juan Luis Font, Sílvia D. Olabarriaga:
  A multi-infrastructure gateway for virtual drug screening. 4478-4490

Volume 27, Number 17, December 2015

Research Articles

• 
  Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico, Marco Guazzone:
  FC2Q: exploiting fuzzy control in server consolidation for cloud applications with SLA constraints. 4491-4514
• 
  Pieter Hijma, Rob van Nieuwpoort, Ceriel J. H. Jacobs, Henri E. Bal:
  Stepwise-refinement for performance: a methodology for many-core programming. 4515-4554
• 
  Charles R. Ferenbaugh:
  PENNANT: an unstructured mesh mini-app for advanced architecture research. 4555-4572
• 
  Lizhi Xiong, Zhengquan Xu, Yanyan Xu:
  A secure re-encryption scheme for data services in a cloud computing environment. 4573-4585
• 
  Jianbin Fang, Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Xiangke Liao, Henk J. Sips:
  Evaluating vector data type usage in OpenCL kernels. 4586-4602
• 
  Javier Fabra, Sergio Hernández, Estefanía Otero-García, Juan Carlos Vidal, Manuel Lama, Pedro Álvarez:
  Integration of grid, cluster and cloud resources to semantically annotate a large-sized repository of learning objects. 4603-4629
• 
  Gianpaolo Coro, Leonardo Candela, Pasquale Pagano, Angela Italiano, Loredana Liccardo:
  Parallelizing the execution of native data mining algorithms for computational biology. 4630-4644
• 
  Ronald A. Olsson, Aaron W. Keen, Todd Williamson:
  Transformations for early reply and forward message passing mechanisms. 4645-4658
• 
  Cristhian Figueroa, Iacopo Vagliano, Oscar Rodriguez Rocha, Maurizio Morisio:
  A systematic literature review of Linked Data-based recommender systems. 4659-4684
• 
  Yonghong Hu, Xuebin Chi, Debbi Chen, David K. Kahaner, David A. Yuen:
  A quantitative index for measuring the development of supercomputing. 4685-4703
• 
  Hermenegilda Macià, M. Carmen Ruiz, José Antonio Mateo, Javier L. Calleja:
  Petri nets-based model for the analysis of NORIA protocol. 4704-4715
• 
  Mauricio Arroqui, J. Rodriguez Alvarez, H. Vazquez, Claudio Machado, Cristian Mateos, Alejandro Zunino:
  JASAG: a gridification tool for agricultural simulation applications. 4716-4740
• 
  Keyvan RahimiZadeh, Reza Nasiri Gerde, Morteza Analoui, Peyman Kabiri:
  Performance evaluation of Web server workloads in Xen-based virtualized computer system: analytical modeling and experimental validation. 4741-4762
• 
  Ramanan Sankaran, Jordan Angel, W. Michael Brown:
  Genetic algorithm based task reordering to improve the performance of batch scheduled massively parallel scientific applications. 4763-4783
• 
  Peng Chen, Yunni Xia, Shanchen Pang, Jia Li:
  A probabilistic model for performance analysis of cloud infrastructures. 4784-4796
• 
  Amnon Barak, Zvi Drezner, Ely Levy, Matthias Lieber, Amnon Shiloh:
  Resilient gossip algorithms for collecting online management information in exascale clusters. 4797-4818
• 
  Yang Zhang, Junliang Chen:
  Constructing scalable Internet of Things services based on their event-driven models. 4819-4851
• 
  Roberto R. Expósito, Guillermo L. Taboada, Sabela Ramos, Juan Touriño, Ramon Doallo:
  Low-latency Java communication devices on RDMA-enabled networks. 4852-4879
• 
  Fengshun Lu, Junqiang Song, Yufei Pang:
  HLog_nGP: A parallel computation model for GPU clusters. 4880-4896
• 
  Mohammad Sabzinejad Farash, SK Hafizul Islam, Mohammad S. Obaidat:
  A provably secure and efficient two-party password-based explicit authenticated key exchange protocol resistance to password guessing attacks. 4897-4913
• 
  Jianchun Jiang, Suhua Zeng, Yanmei Jing, Kailong Wang:
  A lightweight middleware framework for vehicle networking application. 4914-4937
• 
  Alyson D. Pereira, Luiz Eduardo da Silva Ramos, Luís F. W. Góes:
  PSkel: A stencil programming framework for CPU-GPU systems. 4938-4953
• 
  Masoud Sagharichian, Hassan Naderi, M. Haghjoo:
  ExPregel: a new computational model for large-scale graph processing. 4954-4969
• 
  Eduardo Henrique Molina da Cruz, Matthias Diener, Philippe O. A. Navaux:
  Communication-aware thread mapping using the translation lookaside buffer. 4970-4992
• 
  Csaba Mate Józsa, Géza Kolumbán, Antonio M. Vidal, Francisco-Jose Martínez-Zaldívar, Alberto González:
  Parallel sphere detector algorithm providing optimal MIMO detection on massively parallel architectures. 4993-5018
• 
  Dossay Oryspayev, Hasan Metin Aktulga, Masha Sosonkina, Pieter Maris, James P. Vary:
  Performance analysis of distributed symmetric sparse matrix vector multiplication algorithm for multi-core architectures. 5019-5036
• 
  Anubhav Jain, Shyue Ping Ong, Wei Chen, Bharat Medasani, Xiaohui Qu, Michael Kocher, Miriam Brafman, Guido Petretto, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Geoffroy Hautier, Daniel K. Gunter, Kristin A. Persson:
  FireWorks: a dynamic workflow system designed for high-throughput applications. 5037-5059
• 
  Mozhgan Chimeh, Paul Cockshott, Susanne B. Oehler, Ashkan Tousimojarad, Tian Xu:
  Compiling Vector Pascal to the XeonPhi. 5060-5075
• 
  Guangping Tang, Wangdong Yang, Kenli Li, Yu Ye, Guoqing Xiao, Keqin Li:
  An iteration-based hybrid parallel algorithm for tridiagonal systems of equations on multi-core architectures. 5076-5095
• 
  Hartwig Anzt, Blake Haugen, Jakub Kurzak, Piotr Luszczek, Jack J. Dongarra:
  Experiences in autotuning matrix multiplication for energy minimization on GPUs. 5096-5113
• 
  Mika Murtojärvi, Olli S. Nevalainen, Ville Leppänen:
  Performance tuning and sparse traversal technique for a cell-based fetch length algorithm on a GPU. 5114-5133
• 
  Ronald A. Olsson, Aaron W. Keen:
  User accessible reply capabilities in invoking and servicing operations. 5134-5155
• 
  Karthick Seshadri, S. Mercy Shalinie:
  Parallelization of a graph-cut based algorithm for hierarchical clustering of web documents. 5156-5176
• 
  Xinyan Zhang, Keqiu Li, Yong Zhang:
  Minimum-cost virtual machine migration strategy in datacenter. 5177-5187
• 
  Leqing Zhu, Yadong Zhou, Daxing Zhang, Dadong Wang, Huiyan Wang, Xun Wang:
  Parallel multi-level 2D-DWT on CUDA GPUs and its application in ring artifact removal. 5188-5202
• 
  Aurelien Cassagnes, Yu Chen, Hirotada Ohashi:
  Shuffle up and deal: accelerating GPGPU Monte Carlo simulation with application to option pricing. 5203-5213
• 
  Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio:
  JS4Cloud: script-based workflow programming for scalable data analysis on cloud platforms. 5214-5237
• 
  Nikolay A. Simakov, Joseph P. White, Robert L. DeLeon, Amin Ghadersohi, Thomas R. Furlani, Matthew D. Jones, Steven M. Gallo, Abani K. Patra:
  Application kernels: HPC resources performance monitoring and variance analysis. 5238-5260
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  Seyed Morteza Babamir, Elmira Hassanzade, Mona Azimpour:
  Predicting potential deadlocks in multithreaded programs. 5261-5287
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  Bryant C. Lam, Alan D. George, Herman Lam, Vikas Aggarwal:
  Low-level PGAS computing on many-core processors with TSHMEM. 5288-5310
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  Adele Lu Jia, Boudewijn Schoon, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J. Epema:
  Estimating user interaction strength in distributed online networks. 5311-5331
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  Muhammad Idris, Shujaat Hussain, Maqbool Ali, Arsen Abdulali, Muhammad Hameed Siddiqi, Byeong Ho Kang, Sungyoung Lee:
  Context-aware scheduling in MapReduce: a compact review. 5332-5349
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  Huioon Kim, Kyungwon Chun, Hyounggyu Kim, Youngjoo Chung:
  Utilization of workflow management system for virtual machine instance management on cloud. 5350-5373
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  Paul T. Lin, Michael A. Heroux, Richard F. Barrett, Alan B. Williams:
  Assessing a mini-application as a performance proxy for a finite element method engineering application. 5374-5389
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  Maqbool Jahanzeb, Sangyoon Oh, Geoffrey Charles Fox:
  Evaluating ARM HPC clusters for scientific workloads. 5390-5410
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  Pasquale De Meo, Fabrizio Messina, Domenico Rosaci, Giuseppe M. L. Sarné:
  An agent-oriented, trust-aware approach to improve the QoS in dynamic grid federations. 5411-5435
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  César Gómez-Martín, Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez, José Luis González Sánchez:
  Performance and energy aware scheduling simulator for HPC: evaluating different resource selection methods. 5436-5459
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  Prasenjit Sengupta, Jimmy Nguyen, Jason Kwan, Padmanabhan K. Menon, Eric M. Heien, John B. Rundle:
  Accelerating earthquake simulations on general-purpose graphics processors. 5460-5471

Volume 27, Number 18, December 2015

Combined Special issues on Parallelism-based technologies in bioinformatics and biomedicine: a view from diverse perspectives (PBio 2014), Recent research advances in cloud computing and big data (CBD 2014 and ICACON 2014) and Big data cloud and the frontier of computer science and technology (MCCSDN 2015)
Editorials

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  Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez, Sergio Santander-Jiménez:
  Parallelism-based technologies in bioinformatics and biomedicine: a view from diverse perspectives. 5473-5475

Special Issue Papers

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  Dragi Kimovski, Julio Ortega Lopera, Andrés Ortiz, Raul Baños:
  Leveraging cooperation for parallel multi-objective feature selection in high-dimensional EEG data. 5476-5499
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  Marco Ferretti, Mirto Musci, Luigi Santangelo:
  MPI-CMS: a hybrid parallel approach to geometrical motif search in proteins. 5500-5516
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  Enzo Rucci, Carlos García, Guillermo Botella, Armando De Giusti, Marcelo R. Naiouf, Manuel Prieto-Matías:
  An energy-aware performance analysis of SWIMM: Smith-Waterman implementation on Intel's Multicore and Manycore architectures. 5517-5537
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  Estefania Serrano, Javier García Blas, Jesús Carretero:
  A comparative study of an X-ray tomography reconstruction algorithm in accelerated and cloud computing systems. 5538-5556
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  Siham Tabik, Maurice Peemen, Nicolás Guil, Henk Corporaal:
  Demystifying the 16 × 16 thread-block for stencils on the GPU. 5557-5573

Editorials

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  Fang Dong, Alisha Malloy:
  Recent research advances in cloud computing and big data. 5574-5576

Special Issue Papers

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  Yonglong Zhang, Bin Li, Zhiqiu Huang, Jin Wang, Junwu Zhu:
  SGAM: strategy-proof group buying-based auction mechanism for virtual machine allocation in clouds. 5577-5589
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  Wei Zheng, Shouhui Huang:
  An adaptive deadline constrained energy-efficient scheduling heuristic for workflows in clouds. 5590-5605
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  Jinghui Zhang, Mingjun Wang, Junzhou Luo, Fang Dong, Junxue Zhang:
  Towards optimized scheduling for data-intensive scientific workflow in multiple datacenter environment. 5606-5622
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  Jiuxin Cao, Bin Yu, Fang Dong, Xiangying Zhu, Shuai Xu:
  Entropy-based denial-of-service attack detection in cloud data center. 5623-5639
• 
  Gaofeng He, Ming Yang, Junzhou Luo, Xiaodan Gu:
  A novel application classification attack against Tor. 5640-5661
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  Lijuan Wang, Jun Shen, Junzhou Luo:
  Bio-inspired cost-aware optimization for data-intensive service provision. 5662-5685
• 
  Qutaibah Althebyan, Yaser Jararweh, Qussai Yaseen, Omar AlQudah, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub:
  Evaluating map reduce tasks scheduling algorithms over cloud computing infrastructure. 5686-5699
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  Grzegorz Kolaczek, Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Pawel Swiatek, Adam Grzech, Patryk Schauer, Pawel Stelmach, Lukasz Falas:
  Trust-based security-level evaluation method for dynamic service-oriented environments. 5700-5718

Editorials

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  Keqiu Li, Hongyi Wu, Zhiyang Li:
  Big data cloud and the frontier of computer science and technology. 5719-5721

Special Issue Papers

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  Kaimin Wei, Mianxiong Dong, Jian Weng, Guangzhou Shi, Kaoru Ota, Ke Xu:
  Congestion-aware message forwarding in delay tolerant networks: a community perspective. 5722-5734
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  Yan Li, Wenxin Li, Honghui Chen, Deke Guo, Tian Zhang, Ting Qu:
  Congestion-free routing strategy in software defined data center networks. 5735-5748
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  Bin Hong, Fuyang Peng, Bo Deng, Yazhou Hu, Dongxia Wang:
  DAC-Hmm: detecting anomaly in cloud systems with hidden Markov models. 5749-5764
• 
  Jinhai Xu, Songtao Guo, Bin Xiao, Jing He:
  Energy-efficient big data storage and retrieval for wireless sensor networks with nonuniform node distribution. 5765-5779
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  Hong Yao, Changmin Bai, Deze Zeng, Qingzhong Liang, Yuanyuan Fan:
  Migrate or not? Exploring virtual machine migration in roadside cloudlet-based vehicular cloud. 5780-5792
• 
  Xiangdong Huang, Jianmin Wang, Yu Zhong, Shaoxu Song, Philip S. Yu:
  Optimizing data partition for scaling out NoSQL cluster. 5793-5809
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  Liang Zhu, Hai Jin, Xiaofei Liao:
  SymS: a symmetrical scheduler to improve multi-threaded program performance on NUMA systems. 5810-5825
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  Mingdong Tang, Tingting Zhang, Jianxun Liu, Jinjun Chen:
  Cloud service QoS prediction via exploiting collaborative filtering and location-based data smoothing. 5826-5839